I actually like my password encrusted life. If I lose it all I have to do request another be emailed. If I forget my email password I just call my provider and anwser a slew of questions to prove my identity. Things are quick. Now, if my wife gets hold of a password "key" of any kind she will just lose it like she loses her ATM card 2-3 times per year. No thanks.
"I'd say this is a fast one they are trying to pull to funnel the money to some black project"
If that was the intent I would expect them to make up a project that would attract much less attention. Like a study on aircraft landing Anomalies involving albatrose.
If your comment was intended to be humorous please accept my apologies. I've been siting in an uncomfortable chair and my sense of humor has fallen asleep.
"And lo, upon the way of broad, musicals shall be heard to cull up. And these shall be loosely based upon 1980s Star Wars Ripoff movies. There will arise in the audiance a great nashing of teeth as all their spinal colums collectivly reach forth and throttle their brains to prevent the see of it.
From the gates of Heaven the Angel of the Lord will be heard to utter "Dude, WTF?" and later "Oh thats fucking it they're done!". And so begins the end times of man.
Brother Mathius - Prophet of Doom and the fore see-er of thing in front of him.
Seems I've been hearing about this technology for years. Does anyone know what Technical road blocks may have been keeping it from entering full blown industrial production for so long? Or maybe this is just the normal gestation period of a new technology?
How about an motion activated water cannon? Everyone is talking about gun laws this and cameras that - but no petty thief want to get wet. Sounds stupid but I bet nobody on slashdot has ever had their car broken into on a rainy day. The systems are available here. These systems have been around for a little while mostly for keeping away birds or deer - but I bet they'll work to keep petty crooks away quite nicely.
Well, I posted kinda late hope someone sees this - or at least some one else posts the idea.
Paul Graham's Great Hackers essay has really touched a lot of people's nerves. The wires are choked with people giving their point of view.
Yet again, though, I have had to stop and think - what is it about Java that makes people brand it as the most un-cool language on earth? I have had friends look at me like I was a poor sod for "having to" develop in Java. So, let me list all the reasons I can think why people consider Java un-cool.
Java has considerably fewer surprises and prefers not to add complexity to the language for rarely used features thereby resulting in a language where you cannot really make your friends go ga-ga at amazingly brief programming constructs. You need to write something substantial [like Gosling's Huckster] for them be to impressed with your programming abilities and not your language knowledge. This is probably the biggest reason Java is un-cool. It's too easy (although programming or software development remains as tough as ever). Java was always touted as the language that the "average" IT programmer can use. It's such a language-for-the-masses that yet again, it fails the "geek" test. And if you use Java, so do you.
Java has been considered slow for ages. The earlier allegations (1995) were true. However, with the recent advancements in the JVMs from Sun and IBM, Java runs pretty close to C/C++. Check this benchmark. Contrary to this, there are other benchmarks that prove that Java is slower. All considered, it would be fair to say that Java cannot be considered "slow" anymore, yet its stuck with the label.
How cool is to be the jock with the second fastest race-car in the block?
Swing disasters continue to give Java a bad name. Swing is a brilliant, although hard to learn, API. But the vast majority of Swing applications are so bad that they give Swing and therefore Java a bad name.
Java is a strongly typed language therefore you have to tell the compiler exactly what you intend to use. And if you make a mistake in the way you use it, the compiler has the guts to tell you that you were wrong. Too much chaperoning?
Java has a vast library that is available to all Java developers without any ambiguity. Thus, if you wrote yet another Map you would not be considered a data structures guru by Java programmers but a guy who hasn't heard of java.util.*.
Java did not have a good IDE that compared with MS Visual Studio. I think this one was true. I am not so sure it is any more with IntelliJ. The absence of good tools probably pushed away a lot of good programmers.
Java is popular. Anything that is popular has lost its elite status and therefore is not cool.
Java is an application programming platform. You cannot do cool things like device drivers and games, etc (until recently - but Java gaming is coming in a big way).
Maybe because any joker with $10 and a computer can register a formerly unregistered domain name and make it into whatever he wants. All 555-prefixed fone numbers go to the fone company. There's no such provision for URLs
Perhaps one is in order? Perhaps any domain name (the full name + suffix) should be considered copyright-lite by the owners. By copyright-lite I mean a watered down version of what is currnetly avaialble in the US. Something that is transfered with ownership of the domain, automatically. I'm really just talk'n out my arse here - I just wish this sort of intential wrong doing was punishable by some law. Sort of like when you intentially violate a patent are then liable for 3 times the damage.
No, the article clearly states they knew "katie,com" was owned by another women and they went ahead with it anyway. Which, IMHO makes it inexcusable. We don't post real phone numbers in media anymore why shouldn't this rule also apply to other contact information such as domain names and email addresses?
I wouldn't support wide spread adoption of a white knight worms but having them generated underground could have beneficail effects. Since every competent anti-virus program should remove anything viral in nature these benefical worms (like Nachi) could offer a layer of protection to people who are not practing safe computing. Just this effect would take a load off my mind and out of my mailbox - I've just recieved my 9th myDoom generated email from a spoofed address (on my own domain no less).
While I personally believe I have the right to mod/break/fix anytthing I own, I don't know the state of this issue in the USA. Does anyone know what current US law says about mod chips? I thought they were possiblly illegal but no one was sueing anyone yet. Anybody?
Microsoft has more money. In America that makes you right. So, Microsoft will win either by endless court actions or by purchaseing the other company. See - no worries:-)
Slashdot Mirror
I actually like my password encrusted life. If I lose it all I have to do request another be emailed. If I forget my email password I just call my provider and anwser a slew of questions to prove my identity. Things are quick. Now, if my wife gets hold of a password "key" of any kind she will just lose it like she loses her ATM card 2-3 times per year. No thanks.
I forget, is that faster then Plaid Speed?
"I'd say this is a fast one they are trying to pull to funnel the money to some black project"
If that was the intent I would expect them to make up a project that would attract much less attention. Like a study on aircraft landing Anomalies involving albatrose.
If your comment was intended to be humorous please accept my apologies. I've been siting in an uncomfortable chair and my sense of humor has fallen asleep.
Here is an interesting start up thats modifying microbes to make better anitbiotics and antifungals.
The system of the Beast!
The 47th Sign of the Apocalypse...
"And lo, upon the way of broad, musicals shall be heard to cull up. And these shall be loosely based upon 1980s Star Wars Ripoff movies. There will arise in the audiance a great nashing of teeth as all their spinal colums collectivly reach forth and throttle their brains to prevent the see of it.
From the gates of Heaven the Angel of the Lord will be heard to utter "Dude, WTF?" and later "Oh thats fucking it they're done!". And so begins the end times of man.
Brother Mathius - Prophet of Doom and the fore see-er of thing in front of him.
Here is a split screen video comparing the 97 "New Hope" Jaba to the new DVD release.
enjoy
Seems I've been hearing about this technology for years. Does anyone know what Technical road blocks may have been keeping it from entering full blown industrial production for so long? Or maybe this is just the normal gestation period of a new technology?
How about an motion activated water cannon? Everyone is talking about gun laws this and cameras that - but no petty thief want to get wet. Sounds stupid but I bet nobody on slashdot has ever had their car broken into on a rainy day. The systems are available here. These systems have been around for a little while mostly for keeping away birds or deer - but I bet they'll work to keep petty crooks away quite nicely.
Well, I posted kinda late hope someone sees this - or at least some one else posts the idea.
Ok, got one better...
The Operating System World Map! Scroll down to see the nifty map.
here is a link to a small survey on usage in K-12 schools, which is notably not the public but it does give some numbers for academia.
Hey! Don't laugh its a start damn it...grumble grumble
Think of the PORN!!!!
I have notice a few Java clients for MUDs out there, but other then that I havn't seen anything else. Of, what java based MMO do you speak?
Just for you buddy...
Paul Graham's Great Hackers essay has really touched a lot of people's nerves. The wires are choked with people giving their point of view.
Yet again, though, I have had to stop and think - what is it about Java that makes people brand it as the most un-cool language on earth? I have had friends look at me like I was a poor sod for "having to" develop in Java. So, let me list all the reasons I can think why people consider Java un-cool.
Java has considerably fewer surprises and prefers not to add complexity to the language for rarely used features thereby resulting in a language where you cannot really make your friends go ga-ga at amazingly brief programming constructs. You need to write something substantial [like Gosling's Huckster] for them be to impressed with your programming abilities and not your language knowledge. This is probably the biggest reason Java is un-cool. It's too easy (although programming or software development remains as tough as ever). Java was always touted as the language that the "average" IT programmer can use. It's such a language-for-the-masses that yet again, it fails the "geek" test. And if you use Java, so do you.
Java has been considered slow for ages. The earlier allegations (1995) were true. However, with the recent advancements in the JVMs from Sun and IBM, Java runs pretty close to C/C++. Check this benchmark. Contrary to this, there are other benchmarks that prove that Java is slower. All considered, it would be fair to say that Java cannot be considered "slow" anymore, yet its stuck with the label. How cool is to be the jock with the second fastest race-car in the block?
Swing disasters continue to give Java a bad name. Swing is a brilliant, although hard to learn, API. But the vast majority of Swing applications are so bad that they give Swing and therefore Java a bad name.
Java is a strongly typed language therefore you have to tell the compiler exactly what you intend to use. And if you make a mistake in the way you use it, the compiler has the guts to tell you that you were wrong. Too much chaperoning?
Java has a vast library that is available to all Java developers without any ambiguity. Thus, if you wrote yet another Map you would not be considered a data structures guru by Java programmers but a guy who hasn't heard of java.util.*.
Java did not have a good IDE that compared with MS Visual Studio. I think this one was true. I am not so sure it is any more with IntelliJ. The absence of good tools probably pushed away a lot of good programmers.
Java is popular. Anything that is popular has lost its elite status and therefore is not cool.
Java is an application programming platform. You cannot do cool things like device drivers and games, etc (until recently - but Java gaming is coming in a big way).
Kinda give a new meaning to the blue screen of death huh?
oops?
Maybe because any joker with $10 and a computer can register a formerly unregistered domain name and make it into whatever he wants. All 555-prefixed fone numbers go to the fone company. There's no such provision for URLs
Perhaps one is in order? Perhaps any domain name (the full name + suffix) should be considered copyright-lite by the owners. By copyright-lite I mean a watered down version of what is currnetly avaialble in the US. Something that is transfered with ownership of the domain, automatically. I'm really just talk'n out my arse here - I just wish this sort of intential wrong doing was punishable by some law. Sort of like when you intentially violate a patent are then liable for 3 times the damage.
No, the article clearly states they knew "katie,com" was owned by another women and they went ahead with it anyway. Which, IMHO makes it inexcusable. We don't post real phone numbers in media anymore why shouldn't this rule also apply to other contact information such as domain names and email addresses?
www.bugmenot.com
Just enter the web site you're interested in and it will return a user name and password. Great stuff.
I wouldn't support wide spread adoption of a white knight worms but having them generated underground could have beneficail effects. Since every competent anti-virus program should remove anything viral in nature these benefical worms (like Nachi) could offer a layer of protection to people who are not practing safe computing. Just this effect would take a load off my mind and out of my mailbox - I've just recieved my 9th myDoom generated email from a spoofed address (on my own domain no less).
I'm trying to get an idea of how wide spread the outage is.
My area is down; error recieved: "Service error -27."
Location: Southwestern Michigan, USA
Whats your area? Are You down? Whats Your Error?
How can they be Fathers if they're Unics?
Microsoft has been issued a patent covering the act of patenting something.
But seriously folks, will the madness never end?
While I personally believe I have the right to mod/break/fix anytthing I own, I don't know the state of this issue in the USA. Does anyone know what current US law says about mod chips? I thought they were possiblly illegal but no one was sueing anyone yet. Anybody?
Microsoft has more money. In America that makes you right. So, Microsoft will win either by endless court actions or by purchaseing the other company. See - no worries :-)